Welcome to dancrack.com. Development and Design for Print and Web
thomascook.com
Development work for the latest site refresh for thomascook.com.
Check out:
Deals Page,
Tag Cloud,
TV Page...
Gothic Balls '08
A Poster/Flyer for the Creepy Crawleys series of Gothic Balls for 2008
studio79.co.uk
A site redesign for Studio79. A Leicester based dance studio.
Recent Work
Print On Demand
I've recently built a self publishing interface for digital printing company PrintOnDemand-Worldwide. This includes everything from beginning to end.
A online quoting interface to get and tweak quotes for a variety of different print formats. The ability to create a user account and then take that quote into the ordering process, uploading all your files, taking payment online, keeping track of your order and communicate easily with the company
Also included from the business side is an administration console which lets the business keep track of active users and orders, change order status's, administer purchase orders and send quotes and invoices to customers
Technologies used:
- PHP
- HTML
- MySQL
- CSS
- Javascript
thomascook.com - extension
2008 brought a new edge to the site. After it recent redesign and slight polishing we are now redeveloping the site in it's entirety using ATG's ecommerce framework.
The framework is immensely powerful and gives us the opportunity to do (among many other things) dynamic page regeneration based on the current individual customers browsing/buying history. Spent all your time looking at Holidays for a family to Majorca, we can show you all our best Majorca deals.
My main area of work on the site was around deal. Every deal on the site is now dynamically updated without any user intervention. Using a variety of sources the deals are setup once and then assigned to a page where they keep themselves up to date with the best price available in the last 4-6 hours.
Technologies used:
- Java
- JSP
- XML
- HTML
- Oracle
- AJAX
- SOAP
- Javascript
- CSS
thomascook.com
December 2007 brought a cleaner, lighter feel to thomascook.com which much more suits the second largest travel brand in the UK's online presence. It also brought greatly enhanced functionality, which is where I was involved.
AJAX powered dynamic search using SOAP to live data for the Deals Pages, dynamically generated Tag Clouds based on the most searched for destination and the beginnings of an online TV presence which, in my opinion, gives you what you want more than the channel any day.
Technologies used:
- AJAX
- Javascript
- ASP
- XML
- HTML
- CSS
Gothic Balls 2008
A Poster/Flyer design for a series of Gothic Balls being put on in 2008 by the Creepy Crawleys.
Shplaarg
A Photoshop Doodle
Services Available
- Website Design and Build
- Client and Serverside development:
XHTML, CSS, Javascript (+frameworks JQuery etc),AJAX, ASP, PHP, JAVA(J2EE,JSP,JSTL), XML, SQL (MySQL, Oracle)... - ATG E-Commerce development
- WebMaster interface - update your own site
- Usable and Accessible Site Design
- SEO services
- PSD to CSS and HTML
- Client and Serverside development:
- Print Design
- Logo Design & Branding
About Me
I'm inherently interested in the intricacies.
How things work from the first rule or motion to the overall purpose and how the shape and design of them affect their look, feel and functionality.
I started my life in IT as a fiddler; how does it work, why does it do that, why doesn't it do that, how do I make it do this.
After years of breaking, fixing, then re-breaking things I eventually delved into the world of programming. Teaching myself to code for the web and for applications.
The first company I worked at saw me writing financial based systems (Stock Control, Ledger, Order Processing, Customer Databasing, Online Ordering and Credit Card Processing, Database Design and Administration, GPRS based transaction interface and control) for companies like AFS(Heathrow Airport), GRS(Gatwick Airport), CPSFuels, Cotswolds Fuel Services and TotalFinaElf.
Then a hearkening back to my love of art and visual creativity crept it's way back into my life when I took a dive into the world of publishing. I turned my IT curiosity to Photoshop, Indesign and Quark. Working for one of the Top Travel Publishing companies in the UK editing photographs, and working on brochure and marketing design
This then lead me to the world of Professional Web Design and Development, when I moved to work as Senior Developer for a leading Travel Company.
I'm also part of the creative group Metageist where you can see work of mine and designer Lee mason from freethinkingdesign.co.uk...
Links
- Metageist
T-Shirts, Skateboards and Art Prints. - SandWagon
Barefoot Travel blogging from the beyond. - Christophe Huet
Photoshopping dreams...